Mysteries

A number of people spotted these contrails above Kilchoan at about 5.20 yesterday afternoon, not because we are unused to such phenomena - the main air route from Glasgow to Canada passes right over Ardnamurchan, we know as we've been up there, looking down - but because....

...they weren't two trails but one.

Julie Allcock, who kindly sent the Diary these pictures, hoped the reason for the sudden change in course was that the pilot had forgotten his sandwiches rather than anything more serious, though the direction the 'plane was taking suggested an Irish origin.

This marvel of nature turned up in the catch of one of our local fishermen, Justin Cameron. It was nine inches long, and he found it in one of his creels off Laga Bay. While he had his own imaginative explanation of what it is, we think it might be a sea anemone like Peachia or Edwardsia, one of the more unusual varieties which set themselves into mud and sand rather than cling to rocks.

Anyone any ideas?